Playing The Elder Scrolls Online with addons makes the experience so much better and easier. Some of them facilitate gameplay, some of them automate processes (e.g. crafting), and some of them showcase information that you wouldn’t be able to see otherwise. This selection contains my personal recommendations, and the addons that I use myself.
Last post update: March 4, 2026 (Update 48)
Addons are super helpful, they are free, all PC players have access to them, and they make your daily life in ESO much smoother and much more convenient. I definitely recommend installing at least a couple that you think might help you enjoy the game more, or addons that you’ve heard good things about. The following list will have all of the ones that you can see on screen when I’m live on Twitch.
Table of Contents
UI changes:
• Ability Icons Framework– drastically improves the look and visual quality of skills – [LINK]
• Auto Category– adds categories to your inventory items – [LINK]
• Azurah – rearranges and moves UI elements (e.g. quest log, group frames) – [LINK]
• Chat2Clipboard– adds an icon next to chat messages that lets you copy them to the clipboard – [LINK]
• Chat Window Manager– adds a few useful functions to chat – [LINK]
• Combat Reticle – changes the default reticle / cursor to something unique – [LINK]
• Crafted Potions – makes potions have different colors based on their quality – [LINK]
• DarkUI – reskins the UI and changes the textures into something more modern – [LINK]
• Group User ID – makes the game display UserIDs everywhere (e.g. leaderboards) – [LINK]
• HarvestMap – adds markers to every zone that display where harvestable materials can spawn – [LINK]
• HarvestPins – a nice reskin / icon replacer for the HarvestMap addon – [LINK]
• Hide Weapon Swap Icon– does what the name says – [LINK]
• Inventory Insight – adds a list next to your backpack that shows you every single item you have – [LINK]
• Lui Extended – reworks your entire UI, also has many other useful features – [LINK]
• Map Pins – adds various markers to your map that show useful locations and waypoints – [LINK]
• NamePlater – customizes the name plates of every player and NPC in the world – [LINK]
• OdySupportIcons – adds custom icons above your friends’ characters – [LINK]
• pChat – overhauls the chat window, and adds useful quality-of-life functions – [LINK]
• PerfectPixel – elongates your UI and changes the textures – [LINK]
• Slightly Improved Dialogues – reworks the dialogue menu with NPC’s – [LINK]
• Votan’s Improved Locations – rearranges the location info when you open your map – [LINK]
• Votan’s Minimap – adds a minimap to your screen – [LINK]
Combat:
• Action Duration Reminder – adds a useful ability duration timer to your bars – [LINK]
• Archive Helper – adds a lot of useful warnings and notifications for the Infinite Archive – [LINK]
• Code’s Combat Alerts – displays helpful tips on your screen when you’re fighting enemies – [LINK]
• Combat Metrics – adds a meter that measures your and your group’s damage numbers – [LINK]
• Crux Counter – shows the amount of active cruxes on an Arcanist character – [LINK]
• Greyskull– adds a minimalistic weapon & spell damage tracker – [LINK]
• Meterskull – adds a minimalistic penetration, resistance, and critical chance tracker – [LINK]
• Miat’s Cast Icon – displays the length of channeled abilities on your screen – [LINK]
• Miat’s CC Tracker – shows the active crowd control effect(s) your character has on them – [LINK]
• Miat’s Tick Tracker – provides a bar that tracks resource recovery ticks – [LINK]
• Potion Reminder – shows a prompt on your screen when your potion is off cooldown – [LINK]
• Powerful Assault Tracker – tracks Powerful Assault on group members – [LINK]
• Seething Fury Counter – tracks the stats of Seething Fury on a Dragonknight character – [LINK]
• Shalk Tracker – lets you know when your Warden’s Shalks are about to activate – [LINK]
Bug fixes:
• BugCatcher Updated – suppresses LUA error messages during gameplay – [LINK]
• Memory Garbage Collector – performs and forces a LUA purge to make your game run smoother – [LINK]
• Shissu’s LUA Memory – performs a LUA purge that makes your loading screens shorter – [LINK]
Maximum efficiency:
• BeamMeUp – allows you to teleport to friends, group members, and guildmates with one click – [LINK]
• BSCs-CompanionInfo – provides helpful info about all of your companions – [LINK]
• Calamath’s Shortcut Pie Menu – provides a second quickslot menu – [LINK]
• Decluttered Scrying Leads – hides green and blue leads so you can focus on purples and golds – [LINK]
• Display Leads – tells you how to acquire every single antiquity lead in the game – [LINK]
• Group Loot Notifier– displays looted items in your chat window – [LINK]
• Group Synergizer – enhances all LFG functionalities (e.g. auto-accepting queues) – [LINK]
• Kyoma’s Repair ‘n Recharge – automatically repairs your gear & recharges your weapons – [LINK]
• MarkPledges – highlights your pledge dungeons so that they’re easier to queue for – [LINK]
• PersonalAssistant – a lot of quality-of-life features (e.g. automatically banking and selling items) – [LINK]
• Reset Markers – helps you efficiently and quickly reset surveys – [LINK]
Gold making:
• Arkadius’ Trade Tools – helps you track your guild sales and purchases – [LINK]
• AwesomeGuildStore – drastically improves the guild store interface – [LINK]
• Tamriel Trade Centre – displays the price of every single in-game item – [LINK]
Character progression:
• Character Knowledge – shows you which motifs, recipes, and patterns you’ve learned so far – [LINK]
• Leo’s Altholic – tracks the statistics of all your characters – [LINK]
• Unknown Tracker – shows you which motifs, recipes, and patterns you haven’t learned yet – [LINK]
• Urich’s Skill Point Finder – shows you where you can get skill points from – [LINK]
PvP:
• Alliance Rank Progress – shows you the progression towards your next PvP rank – [LINK]
• AP Meter – adds a meter that displays how many Alliance Points you’ve earned in your session – [LINK]
• Better Scoreboard – adds additional information to the Battleground scoreboards – [LINK]
• CyrHUD – shows you which keeps / outposts have ongoing activity in Cyrodiil – [LINK]
• Improved PvP UI – reskins and simplifies the campaign list, adds new tooltips – [LINK]
• Kill Counter – adds statistics for PvP kills, deaths, kill assists, and many other features – [LINK]
• RdK Group Tool – a very powerful addon with many features, a must-have for group PvP – [LINK]
• Vampz – shows vampire feeding spots in Cyrodiil as map markers – [LINK]
Crafting:
• Dolgubon’s Lazy Set Crafter – helps you craft items more efficiently by adding them to a queue – [LINK]
• Dolgubon’s Lazy Writ Crafter – automatically crafts the daily writs’ items for you – [LINK]
• Potion Maker – makes potion crafting a lot easier and streamlined – [LINK]
• WritWorthy – automatically crafts all master writs in your inventory, shows requirements & prices – [LINK]
Builds:
• Dynamic CP Lite – adds names to the Champion Point stars, and provides loadouts as well – [LINK]
• Item Set Browser – lets you see and search for all in-game sets, even craftable ones – [LINK]
• SuperStar – gives you a command with which you can display your entire build – [LINK]
• Wizard’s Wardrobe – works as free Armory Slots (equips different loadouts with one click) – [LINK]
Miscellaneous:
• Collectibles Tracker – helps you track event collectibles – [LINK]
• Essential Housing Tools – reworks the housing functionalities and makes them more useful – [LINK]
• Item Cooldown Tracker – tracks the loot cooldown of specific containers like Rewards for the Worthy – [LINK]
• Notebook 2018 – adds an in-game Notepad that you can use as a journal, or for taking notes – [LINK]
• Randomote – plays random emotes when your character is idle – [LINK]
• Synced Account Settings – makes it so all your characters have the same game settings – [LINK]
• TitleFlex – with this, you’re able to have multiple titles that rotate and change periodically – [LINK]
• Votan’s Keybinder – allows you to have more unique keybinds – [LINK]
I hope these addons serve you well, and help you as much as they have helped me! Don’t forget to install the required libraries for them to work!
Let me know if you have any questions, either on Twitch when I’m live, or in our Discord server (link in my Twitch bio)!
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